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In the wake of the ongoing SCO lawsuit, open source developers must take steps to ensure they don't become the victims of further legal action.

This vulnerability allows for a carefully crafted .VCF file to potentially enable a local attacker to compromise the privacy of a victim's data or execute arbitrary commands with the victim's privileges. This can also be used by remote attackers if the victim enables previews for remote files; however this is disabled by default.

The krozat screensaver in Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.2 had a memory leak. The updated packages correct the problem.

The kwin4 application would crash on startup. The updated packages fix this problem.

A problem with qt3 would cause improper behaviour of using accelerator keys in KDE applications such as Konqueror, KMail, and others. Using these keys would either crash the program or simply not work. The updated packages fix this problem.

Updated tcpdump, libpcap, and arpwatch packages fix vulnerabilities in ISAKMP and RADIUS parsing.

The nation's open-source software sector is expected to enjoy significant growth in the next few years, backed by strong government support and the interest of

revealing its precise inner workings, Connor said.". What happens when the CBCDG wants to target Open Source? I like this one: it's a the interest of

With Linux and open source software, CSIRO’s mathematical and information sciences division is now able to model information for business benefit without

The most commonly used distribution amongst attendees is Debian, a non-commercial distribution, followed by Red Hat and Mandrake.

CW: What are your thoughts on the recent SCO issue? LT: This week has been good and I’m happy to see Novell release a letter that

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available.

These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade.

This machine runs Fedora Core Release 1 (my primary OS), Red Hat Linux 9, Mandrake Linux 9.2, Debian Linux unstable, FreeBSD 5.1, Windows 2000 and Windows XP

The IA-64 maintainers fixed several security related bugs in the Linux kernel 2.4.17 used for the IA-64 architecture, mostly by backporting fixes from 2.4.18.

By Online Staff. Sun Microsystems has expanded local support for Linux by signing up 15 new partners in Australia, a company official said today.

At that show a year ago, HP chief executive Carly Fiorina said HP earned $2bn Linux-related in 2002. In addition, HP is now selling Novell Readies Itself for LinuxWorld Conf & Expo - LinuxWorl

said Thursday that its Linux-related revenue was more than $2.5 billion in 2003, a figure that it said places it in the top tier of companies vying for Conference & Expo Names Finalists for Product -

New INN packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade.

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available.